Culture, Community Curriculum

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Culture, Community Curriculum

• The story of
• PACHASAALE

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DECCAN DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY

• 20 year old grassroots organisation
• Works in Medak District of AP 100 kms away from
  Hyderabad,
• With womens Sanghams in 75 villages

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DECCAN DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY

• 5000 women members
• poorest of the poor
• Most of them are dalits

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Nature of communities

• Multiple marginalisation
• Rural
• Poor
• Dalit
• Women

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PACHASAALE a response to community needs
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The Birth
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The Birth 1993

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PACHASAALE some features
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The School as a beehive
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ASSEMBLY interactive space
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CLASSROOMS THE CREATIVE SPACE
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CLASSROOMS Learning Space
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Experimenting with Science
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NEW TOOLS FOR LEARNING
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WIDENING HORIZONS
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DEEPENING ROOTS Skills Community
traditions Trascending barriers
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CONSTRUCTIONregenerating lost skills

• MOST SKILLED PEOPLE MIGRATE
• COMMUNITY IS DEPRIVED
• MULTI SKILLING IS RURAL TRADITION
• RETRIEVING THAT TRADITION IS GOAL

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POTTERY advancing community skills
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HEALTH
Making herbal medicines unravelling traditional
knowledge
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CARPENTRY Gender Caste
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LEARNINGING TO CARE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH
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TRANSCENDING CASTE GENDER
POTTERY
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TAILORING
UPGRADING SKILLS
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BOOK Skill for self BINDING
reliance
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FUN FROLIC
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FUN GAMES
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BHAGOTHAM Fun Folk
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COMMUNITY AND CULTURE
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ENDLUGATTE PUNNAM
in the community
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ENDLU GATTE PUNNAM
In PACHASAALE
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EROKKA PUNNAM in the community
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EROKKA PUNNAM pachasaale
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EROKKA as School Project
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RELIGION PLURALITY CURRICULUM
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PEERLA PANDUGA In the community
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MOHARRUM School Project
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Learning Tradition Harmony Journalism
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TRADITION OF AGRI CULTURE
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TRADITION OF ECOLOGICAL FARMING
TRADITION OF BIODIVERSITY
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SEEDS OF HOPE
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PERMA CULTURE
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PERMACULTURE
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Agri reporting From grassroots
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Crushing Cane New ways of Learning
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GANUGU FOR PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, GEOMETRY,
AGRICULTURE, SOCIOLOGY
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STAYING LINKED TO COMMUNITIES
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REPORTING BACK
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REPORTING BACK
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Exhibitions Discussisons Demos Theatre Sales
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IN THE PIPELINE
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IN THE PIPELINE
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Creating new rural rooted Communities?